The Impact of National Culture on Software Piracy

By Bryan W. Husted. 2000

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing

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A Twenty-First Century Assessment of Values Across the Global Workforce (2011, methodology): “Hofstede’s cultural values have been used in studies on a diversity of topics such as business ethics and corruption (e.g., Husted 1999, 2000; Scholtens and Dam 2007), environmental performance (Husted 2005; Peng and Lin 2009), and personal moral philosophy and ethical attitudes (Forsyth et al.…”
Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR): Toward a Multi-Level, Multi-Agent Conceptualization of the “Other CSR” (2013, neutral): “…as the introduction of accessible internet technologies have meant that practices such as downloading pirated music (e.g., Chiou et al. 2005; d’Astous et al. 2005) and software (e.g., Husted 2000) can be done with considerable anonymity and lack of prosecution risk (Chatzidakis and Mitussis 2007).”
Consumer complicity with counterfeit products (2011, background): “Consumers in a collectivist culture place more value on approval and compliance of his/her behavior with others and this overrules his/her own attitude towards the behavior Husted (2000), Moores (2008), Wang et al. (2005)”
Ethics and Religion: An Empirical Test of a Multidimensional Model (2008, background): “Moreover, men, more than women, are inclined to justify unethical behaviors (Husted, 2000).”
Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music (2003, neutral): “Empirically, national software piracy rates have been shown to be related to income and culture (Gopal and Sanders 1998 and 2000; Marron and Steel 2000; Husted 2000).”
Purchasing pirated software: an initial examination of Chinese consumers (2005, background): “At the macro-level, the collectivist culture is associated strongly with piracy rates in regression studies (Husted, 2000; Marron and Steel, 2000).”
Does National Culture Affect Willingness to Justify Ethically Suspect Behaviors? (2005, methodology): “Our findings for uncertainty avoidance are also surprising and are inconsistent with previous research (Husted, 1999, 2000) which suggests that people in high uncertainty avoidance cultures seem more likely to tolerate deviances from strict rules and norms (Husted, 1999) to commit unethical…”
Executive Insights: Countering Brand Counterfeiters (2002, background): “Recent empirical studies have found a significant relationship between a country’s level of individualism and the extent to which intellectual property rights are protected (Husted 2000; Ronkainen and Guerrerro-Cusumano 2001).”
Are Hofstede's and Schwartz's value frameworks congruent? (2007, background): “Since, they claimed that their cultural dimensions were more up-to-date and more methodologically sound than either Hofstede's or Schwartz's frameworks ( Husted, 2000”
The Motion Picture Industry: Critical Issues in Practice, Current Research, and New Research Directions (2006, background): “• Do the answers to these questions differ across territories or cultures (e.g., Husted 2000)?”
Organizations and Societal Economic Inequality: A Review and Way Forward (2020, background): “In another study, Husted (2000) found that software piracy is lower in countries with high income inequality because the rich can afford to pay for the software, while the poor might be too poor to have access to computers in the first place.”
Sharing Sustainability: How Values and Ethics Matter in Consumers’ Adoption of Public Bicycle-Sharing Scheme (2016, background): “…Hofstede’s typology—particularly collectivism versus individualism (e.g., Lu et al. 2015)—has been applied in various national and cultural contexts to explain how culture influences ethical decision making (Cohen et al. 1996; Husted 2000; Karaibrahimoglu and Cangarli 2015; Vitell et al. 1993).”
The Antecedents of Music Piracy Attitudes and Intentions (2005, background): “Past research has found that culture plays a significant role in consumer behaviors (Husted, 2000; Swinyard et al., 1990; Tavassoh and Han, 2002).”